Zubair Qureshi
Beaconhouse, Pakistan’s premier education provider, and Knowledge Platform another leading education technology company, have signed an agreement for provision of education technology platform to 200 schools and over 100,000 students in Beaconhouse schools system in Pakistan as well as 7 other countries.
Mahboob Mahmood, the founder of Knowledge Platform while speaking at the signing ceremony noted that his company was thrilled and honoured to serve Beaconhouse through the ‘landmark transaction.’
In terms of numbers of learners, this may represent the world’s largest education technology deal contracted to date in the private K-12 education sector, he said. Nassir Kasuri, Executive Director of the Beaconhouse School System while thanking Mahboob Mahmood for his comments, termed the agreement “the third stage of 14-month relationship between Beaconhouse and Knowledge Platform.”
In September 2019, we invested in the company. In December 2019, Knowledge Platform launched a specialized version of its national curriculum content and platform for our Educators’ partner network. With the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, the platform was extended to Beaconhouse schools offering the national curriculum, said Kasuri.
“Now, in partnership, we will be offering educational content and technology across our entire school system, including at the CAIE O and A level programmes,” he said. He observed that technology was enabling education in unprecedented ways. It is now possible to introduce students to collaboration and learning tools that were unthinkable just a few years ago.
Moreover, coronavirus pandemic has greatly accelerated the adoption of education technology across our school system. Working together, Beaconhouse and Knowledge Platform expect to innovate continuously to provide our students and teachers state-of-the-art 24×7 learning and teaching opportunities, said Nasir Kasuri.
This education technology agreement includes the provision of a customised learning management system, integration with the Google suite of content applications, a community platform to enable teachers to develop educational content, a library of educational content, and an innovation and development partnership to enable the development of world-class digital educational content and new educational products.
Mahboob Mahmood added that Beaconhouse had 45 years of experience in the provision of quality education of international standards in Pakistan and overseas, and has achieved an effective scale in operations. Knowledge Platform has been providing e-learning solutions for 20 years across Asia.
